North Carolina Disability Literature
cover art by Laura Hope-Gill
Highlighting Disability Experiences and Voices
section introduction by Casey Kayser, Guest Feature Editor
“North Carolina is home to many writers and artists with disabilities, whose voices have often been marginalized or overlooked, and we hope that featuring Disability Literature plays a role in highlighting the great talent and diversity of the writers’ experiences.”
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The Weight of Light
the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize essay
and art by Laura Hope-Gill
The Map That Leads to Salvation
a review by Annie Woodford
Kelley Shinn, The Wounds That Bind Us
The Anchored Raft
a graduation address by Elaine Neil Orr
Living with Compulsions
a review by Patricia A. Dunn
Halli Gomez, List of Ten
Mari and Jase’s Story: Honesty, Acceptance, and Yes, Some Kissing
a review by Jessica L. Allee
Kati Gardener, Finding Balance
Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues
Congratulations Are in Order
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor
“So what are you waiting for? [Click the title below] to read Ashley Harris’s essay. Then on to the poetry and reviews. Please be sure to buy books from your local independent bookstore.”
My Rembrandt Weekend
creative nonfiction by Ashley Harris
Translating the Mysterious
a review by Robert M. West
Michael McFee, A Long Time to Be Gone
The Book of Whys
a review by Christie Collins
Melinda Thomsen, Armature
The Poet and the Painter: Exploring Personal Landscapes
a review by Michael Beadle
Ken Chamlee, If Not These Things and
The Best Material for the Artist in the World
Painting a Varied Picture of Art in North Carolina
a review by Heather D. Wilson
Liza Roberts, Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina
Spent
a poem and photography by Bill Griffin
Lightning Strikes Twice
a review by Al-Tariq Moore
Randall Kenan, Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings
This Is the First Question I Ask
a poem by Loss Pequeño Glazier
art by Peter Marin
From Big Pine to Jazz: Making a Life with Pizzazz
a review by Rebecca Godwin
Terry Roberts, The Sky Club
There Is No Time
a poem by Kimberly J. Simms
art by Jennifer Markowitz
After Midnight
a poem by Robert W. Hill
art by Herb Jackson
Long Road and Tall Pines
a review by Rebecca Duncan
Marjorie Hudson, Indigo Field
Susan Underwood, Genesis Road
“to love the South surgically”
a review by Zackary Vernon
Mark Powell, The Late Rebellion
Writing the Hurt
a review by John Lang
Charles Dodd White, A Year Without Months
Stitching
a poem by Joyce Compton Brown
art by Dawn Suratt
Eagles
a poem by Janet Ford
art by Alan Dehmer
Marsha White Warren Receives the
2023 North Carolina Award for Literature
by Michele W. Walker
Clyde Edgerton Receives 2023
John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities
by Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
North Carolina Miscellany
Do NOT Throw Rocks
in North Carolina
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor
“When I took up the mantle of NCLR Editor over twenty-five years ago, one of the first things I heard was the mantra that if you throw a rock in North Carolina you are likely to hit a writer. I meet new writers with every contest we manage as I match judges’ selected titles with the finalists’ names and as more and more books are added to our books available for review list. So please, do not throw any rocks in North Carolina. I really get attached to these folks, particularly after their work has been featured in our pages.”
Blue Delusions
a poem by Cheryl Skinner
art by Meredith Hebden
For Those Who Cannot Speak
a review by Melinda Thomsen
AE Hines, Any Dumb Animal
The Poetry of Place
a review by Chris Abbate
Molly Rice, Forever Eighty-Eights
Apple
a poem by Duncan Smith
art by Walsh/Blazing
Found Magic
a review by J.S. Absher
Joan Barasovska, Orange Tulips
Janis Harrington, How to Cut a Woman in Half
Shinning a Light on History
a review by Amanda M. Capelli
Kianna Alexander, Carolina Built
Community as Witness in West Mills
a review by Kristina L. Knotts
De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Decent People
Split Identity and Shades of Local Color Writing
a review by Charles Duncan
Jacinda Townsend, Mother Country
An Agatha Christie Mystery – Not Written by Agatha Christie
a review by Shane Trayers
Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair
The Stories We Tell – And Don’t Tell
a review by Julia Ridley Smith
Amy Rowland, Inside the Wolf
Tripping on the Twelve Steps
a review by Sharon E. Colley
Karen Tucker, Bewilderness
Swamp Girls in Trouble: Class, Race, and the Patriarchy in the Prohibition-Era South
a review by Dennis Turner
Kelly Mustian, The Girls in the Stilt House
Debut Novel by Carolina Newcomer Offers Thrill Ride
a review by Henry L. Wilson
Mason Boyles, Bark On
Nominations from this Issue
Best of the Net
Joyce Compton Brown
Ashley Harris
Laura Hope-Gill
Walsh/Blazing
Orison Books Best Spiritual Literature Anthology
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